The Times of Israel reported Thursday that Israel’s Homefront Command has chosen a new system to power its app for its emergency notification system. David Shamah, the technology reporter for the Times, writes: After a year-long pilot program, Israel’s Homefront Command selected Israeli firm eVigilo’s SMART Internet to power its new...

Israel has arrested at least six people in connection with the July 2 murder in Jerusalem of Arab teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir. As a result of the 17 year old’s killing widespread rioting erupted in Jerusalem, northern Israel and parts of the West Bank. Palestinians have claimed that the murder...

Some half a million Israelis spent much of their weekend running to bomb shelters, with school camps remaining closed in one city July 6 because of rocket fire from Gaza. “The Ashdod municipality had said on Saturday night that no classes or other planned activities would be allowed to open,...

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Iran’s economy is making an impressive recovery from the sanctions relief granted as part of the interim deal with the P5+1 nations last November. It begins by noting that the president of Iran’s chamber of commerce, Gholam Hossein Shafei, “greets trade missions from...

Earlier this week, Reuters reported on a surprising consequence of Syria’s civil war: trade between Europe and the Arab world is increasingly passing through Israel. A Romanian truck driver, Ismail Hamad, explained that after 30 years of driving through Syria, he no longer does so because of  “[t]oo much problems,...

The World Wildlife Foundation and The Cleantech Group (CTG), described as helping “clients accelerate sustainable innovation,”  named Israel the top cleantech innovator in a press release Tuesday. A press release by CTG reads: Israel secured the top spot for its ‘high-impact cleantech start-ups’, strong venture capital activity and government support. The...

Residents of southern Israel continue to be terrorized by dozens of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza at Israeli towns and cities. Since the beginning of the year there have been over 140 rocket and mortar attacks from Hamas-controlled Gaza into civilian areas. There have already been over 80 rocket...

Rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel continued Thursday. Israel Hayom reports: At around 8:30 in the morning, the early warning alarm sounded in Sderot followed by a salvo of three rockets. One of the rockets penetrated the wall of the second story of a building. On the first floor...

Earlier this week The New York Times outlined how a case brought by Stephen Flatow against Iran exposed the chicanery used by major international banks to evade sanctions and do business with the Iranian regime. Flatow brought a lawsuit against Iran for its financing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which was responsible...

The global fish crisis that is meant to take trout, salmon and cod off the menu by 2050, may have been wrongly diagnosed. While a 2010 report by the United Nations Environment Program states that over-fishing and pollution have nearly emptied the world’s fish stocks, a new Israeli study says...